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64
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Lee-Lueng Fu publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lee-Lueng Fu sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Lee-Lueng Fu D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lee-Lueng Fu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lee-Lueng Fu is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States, with a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their scholarly contributions cover a range of topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, ocean waves and remote sensing, marine and coastal ecosystems, geophysics and gravity measurements, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and flood risk assessment and management.

Frequent collaborators include Matthew Archer, Jinbo Wang, J. Thomas Farrar, Zhijin Li, and Tamlin M. Pavelsky, with multiple coauthored publications across various venues.

Lee-Lueng Fu has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Surveys in Geophysics

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lee-Lueng Fu are:

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: A Breakthrough in Radar Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Land Surface Water (2024), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Patterns and Dynamics of SST Fronts in the California Current System (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ocean Circulation from Space (2023), Surveys in Geophysics
  • Increasing the Space-Time Resolution of Mapped Sea Surface Height From Altimetry (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • On the Development of SWOT In Situ Calibration/Validation for Short-Wavelength Ocean Topography (2022), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Best Publications

  • TOPEX/POSEIDON mission overview

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Edward J. Christensen;Charles A. Yamarone;Michel Lefebvre

  • Satellite altimetry and earth sciences : a handbook of techniques and applications

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Anny Cazenave

  • Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Fabrice Ardhuin;Mounir Benkiran

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: Observing Terrestrial Surface Water and Oceanic Submesoscale Eddies

    Michael Durand;Lee-Lueng Fu;Dennis P Lettenmaier;Douglas E Alsdorf

  • Chapter 1 Satellite Altimetry

    Dudley B. Chelton;John C. Ries;Bruce J. Haines;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Eddy dynamics from satellite altimetry

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Dudley B. Chelton;Pierre Yves Le Traon;Rosemary Morrow

  • Observations and models of inertial waves in the deep ocean

    Lee-Lueng Fu

  • On the Transition from Profile Altimeter to Swath Altimeter for Observing Global Ocean Surface Topography

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Clement Ubelmann

  • Effects of the Indonesian Throughflow on the Pacific and Indian Oceans

    Tong Lee;Ichiro Fukumori;Dimitris Menemenlis;Zhangfan Xing

  • Sea surface height variations in the South China Sea from satellite altimetry

    Ping-Tung Shaw;Shenn-Yu Chao;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Seasonality in Transition Scale from Balanced to Unbalanced Motions in the World Ocean

    Bo Qiu;Shuiming Chen;Patrice Klein;Jinbo Wang

  • Partitioning Ocean Motions Into Balanced Motions and Internal Gravity Waves: A Modeling Study in Anticipation of Future Space Missions

    Hector S. Torres;Patrice Klein;Patrice Klein;Dimitris Menemenlis;Bo Qiu

  • Nature of global large‐scale sea level variability in relation to atmospheric forcing: A modeling study

    Ichiro Fukumori;Ramanujam Raghunath;Lee‐Lueng Fu

  • Observing Oceanic Submesoscale Processes From Space

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Raffaele Ferrari

  • Global Ocean Circulation from Satellite Altimetry and High-Resolution Computer Simulation

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Richard D. Smith

  • Satellite Altimetry Measurements of Sea Level in the Coastal Zone

    Stefano Vignudelli;Florence Birol;Jérôme Benveniste;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Eddy-induced meridional heat transport in the ocean

    Denis L. Volkov;Tong Lee;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • The Effects of Altimeter Instrument Noise on the Estimation of the Wavenumber Spectrum of Sea Surface Height

    Yongsheng Xu;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • The Challenge of Using Future SWOT Data for Oceanic Field Reconstruction

    Lucile Gaultier;Clément Ubelmann;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Internal waves in the Gulf of California: Observations from a spaceborne radar

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Benjamin Holt

  • The OSTM/Jason-2 Mission

    Juliette Lambin;Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Josh K. Willis

  • The General Circulation and Meridional Heat Transport of the Subtropical South Atlantic Determined by Inverse Methods

    Lee-Lueng Fu

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Lee-Lueng Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dimitris Menemenlis
Dimitris Menemenlis California Institute of Technology
Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary Morrow Paul Sabatier University
Ernesto Rodriguez
Ernesto Rodriguez Jet Propulsion Lab
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Ichiro Fukumori
Ichiro Fukumori California Institute of Technology
Dudley B. Chelton
Dudley B. Chelton Oregon State University
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Chris W. Hughes
Chris W. Hughes University of Liverpool
Douglas Alsdorf
Douglas Alsdorf The Ohio State University

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